Below is a list of selected resources, tools, and equipment available to our group members:
- 4 large laboratories
- 6 + optical tables (Newport and Thorlabs)
- 1 Ti:sapphire ps mode-locked laser with optical parametric oscillator (Coherent)
- 1 Ti:sapphire fs laser (Atseva)
- 1 Verdi continuous pump laser, 18W (Coherent)
- 1 Tsunami® Ultrafast Ti:Sapphire Oscillators (Spectra-Physics)
- 1 Lighthouse Photonics Pump laser
- Various lasers: HeNe gas laser, and Laser Diodes at 405nm, 532nm, 780nm 1550nm (Toptica, Melles, Crystallasers, Thorlabs, Agilent)
- 2 tunable laser diode DL100-pro (Toptica)
- 1 tunable laser diode BlueMode (Toptica)
- Detectors: 20+ Si (Exceletus), 4+ Si (PMD), 4+ InGaAs (idQuantiqe)
- 6 channel Superconducting Nanowire detectors (Quantum Opus)
- Wavefront Analyzers (Otek)
- 10 time-tagging and logic counters: high-speed coincidence correlation and counting logics (UQD)
- 2 time interval analyzers (Becker&Hickel)
- 2 Michelson optical spectrometer (Bristol)
- 2 Grating spectrometer with liquid-nitrogen cooled Si- and InGaAs-CCDs
- 2 Grating mini-spectrometers (Ocean Insight)
- 2 optical spectrum analyzers (Anritsu)
- Various motorization stages (rotation/translation) and motion-controllers (Newport)
- 3 beam characterization systems (Data Ray)
- 1 electronic spectrometer and network analyzer (Agilent)
- Various signal generators, oscilloscopes and electronic instruments (Tektronix, Agilent, Tabor, etc)
- 4 >1GHz oscilloscopes (Tektronix, LeCroy)
- Various opto-mechanical and optical components (Thorlabs, Newport, NewFocus)
- 3 Mobile lab trailers for field experiments
- Various telescopes and telescope mounts (Skywatcher, Celestron, ASA)
- 1 six-axis robotic manipulator (AUBO)
- Various GPS timing system and antennas
- Clean room tent
- Thermal vacuum chamber
- Optical stereo microscope (Leica)
- Climate/Weather station
We have an active free-space quantum link with the senders operating from a dome on the roof of the Research Advancement Centre (RAC) building, which is connected with optical fibres to a lab. Three movable stations are implemented with trailers, currently located in fields about 500 m from the senders.
We also have access to high performance computing resources: a cluster based on AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon CPUs using Sun Grid Engine (distributed resource management software ); Maple, Matlab, Mathematica (computer algebra systems); LabVIEW; and Zemax OpticStudio (optical simulation software); COMSOL multiphysics (FEM).